Employers Increasingly Rely on Internal Referrals in Hiring - NYTimes.com

Employers Increasingly Rely on Internal Referrals in Hiring - NYTimes.com

By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ

Published: January 27, 2013

Danielle Cosgrove, left, referred Riju Parakh for a job at Ernst & Young. Ms. Parakh was hired within three weeks. 

Riju Parakh wasn’t even looking for a new job. 

But when a friend at Ernst & Young recommended her, Ms. Parakh’s résumé was quickly separated from the thousands the firm receives every week because she was referred by a current employee, and within three weeks she was hired. “You know how long this usually takes,” she said. “It was miraculous.” Read more...

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